Paolo Della Corte
Photographer
Buenavista Photo
Venezia, VE, Italia
I was born in Venice and am still living there now though my work often takes me across Italy and others countries.
I graduated in Art History but was soon drawn to professional photography, specializing in portraits and cultural reporting.
In New York I made portraits of some of the biggest names internationally; the same happened in Venice during the Biennale Art exhibit in which my camera captured some of the most famous personalities around: Louise Bourgeoise, Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Yannis Kounellis, the Italians Fabro, Merz, Vedova, Plessi, and Vangi. The photographs of writers that I am most fond of include Doris Lessing, Gunther Grass, Luis Sepulveda, Fulvio Tomizza, and Claudio Magris.
Over five hundred artists and writers of undisputed renown appear in my archives.
In New York, while shooting the portrait of pop-artist George Segal, The main Italian magazines - Specchio of La Stampa, Venerdì of Repubblica, Sette of Corriere della Sera – as well as weekly magazines like L'Espresso and Panorama, have published my work depicting social reality. There is for instance: the detainees in the women’s prison on the island of la Giudecca, Venice, who became sought-after costume designers, the talc miners of Val Germanasca, and the widely diffused images on the Belgian town of Geel illustrating its old customary tradition in which families house the mentally ill.
The Sunday Times featured my coverage of the "cacaoteros" of Chuao, in Venezuela. It fixed the images of the industry, the culture, and the sacred sides of the cacao industry.
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Stories about amphibious men in the Lagoon
Paolo Della Corte
Visions and water transparency told by local " testimonials ", Venetians who
fish and cultivate vegetable gardens and vineyards stubbornly subtracted to brackish waters.
A town different from the clichè that shows only mass tourism concentrated in
the centre. Here we show you another point of view, that of people who are
respectful of the environment, who do not exploit its lagoon.
Venice - The Jewish Community
Paolo Della Corte
Venice - A photo reportage celebrates the 500th anniversary of the construction of the Ghetto in Venice through portraits of the Venetian Jewish Community protagonists.
A mayse mit (once upon a time) starts its journey in Venice, where the first Ghetto in the world was founded in 1516, and that will celebrate its half millennium in 2016. Men and women, of different ages and with different experiences, accepted to be portrayed together with their objects, thanks to them you will be taken through us to discover wonderful personages.
You will discover through us the Jewish traditions, that in a second moment became Venetian traditions, and anectodes of a very important community in the history of Serenissima.
